The lucky technogeek.

[kyrielle]

I love Fry's sales. They announce sale prices in every Friday's paper. Many are lousy; others are excellent, but for things I don't need and cannot justify buying. Most of them, really. This week's...well, this week's the Fourth of July sale and I thoroughly approve of a couple deals. Recently, I bought another CompactFlash card for use with my camera, so that I now have three 256-meg cards. I wanted four, but I couldn't bring myself to spend that much twice. This weekend, they rewarded me by having a $20 mail-in rebate...on a $40 instore-deal...on a 256 meg CF card. Lexar, at that; one of my three existing cards was a Lexar pro, the other two SanDisks. I've been very pleased with both (though the one time a card corrupted on me, I'll note it was one of the SanDisks).

Now, this deal wasn't on a Lexar pro. I wouldn't have gotten one at all except that there was a very good deal on it when I bought the camera originally, due to buying the camera. But it was still a perfectly nice Lexar CF card, and I have a fair bit of faith in those guys. So, I now have the number of cards I wanted to, and once I get the rebate, it only cost me $20. (And I have the rebate forms all set to mail out later today, once I've also paid the bills and can put those out. Because otherwise, I would lose some necessary component of the rebate. And yes, I checked the card out and made sure it behaved right - it did! - before taking off the UPC and making it impossible to return it.)

The other deal is on an AC. I'm debating - but a 9000 BTU portable AC could handle our bedroom, if we wanted it to, and render the question of having to sort out where we want our single AC on any given day moot. And the darned thing is on sale for $399 if I remember the ad right - a very good deal for one of those. (Remembering the ad because I don't get the paper, I just read it at work. I know it was not over $400, though, which really is good enough info for me!) I'd have to check the ad again to find out if any of that was a mail-in rebate.

I didn't pick up one of those last night, since it would be nice to discuss it with Scott first. An extra AC is a household decision, whereas an extra memory card is just me being a geek about cool toys. (And wanting to be able to take more pictures before I have to haul out the laptop and offload them - which isn't always possible, say on trips where I have not taken it, to begin with!)

And I don't even feel bad about having bought a single card at the higher price before, because the mail-in rebate deal is good "one per household address" anyway. :)

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[pheon.livejournal.com]

That AC is $299 at the store; no mail-in rebate. Seemed like a nice unit and it is one of the brands that research showed to be pretty good, so Julie and I bought one this afternoon. It is now working on the kitchen. The provided window kit for the exhaust hose works well.

Sale ends tomorrow.

[kyrielle]

*grins* Coolcool. Literally. ;) Scott and I discussed it, and decided we don't really need a second one. The deal's good, but as much as we wish this one hit more areas of the house, we've never been caused a problem by it, either. Guess we should have waited, though! And since it's a different brand, we can't even claim the price adjustment. Ahwell.